Daniel Dennett Quotes
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.
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Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
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I left school on my 15th birthday.
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
